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Academician Vladimir Is. Keilis-Borok, tel. 110-77-95
Keylis-Borok, Vladimir I., D. PM. S. Born in 1921. Academician of the Geology,
Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since
December 1987. Since 1963, Head of the Computational Geophysics Laboratory of
the O. Iu. Shmidt Earth Physics Institute in Moscow. Foreign member of the US
National Academy of Sciences, the American Science and Arts Academy, and the
Royal Astronomical Society (UK).
Academician Andrei L. Knipper, tel. 230-80-57
Knipper, Andrei L., D. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since December
1987; academician in 1993. Since 1989, he has been the Director of the Geology
Institute in Moscow, which is a major research center for tectonics research and the
development of mathematical methods of geological research.
Academician Aleksei Em. Kontorovich, tel. 35-14-48(N.)
Kontorovich, Aleksei Z., D. GM. S. Born in 1934. Geologist. Specialist in general
geology and the geochemistry of oil and gas. Academician since 1990. Deputy
Director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Department in
Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk. He is the author of 26 research works and co-author
of 360 publications. His monographs “The Geology of Oil and Gas of the Siberian
Platform,” (1976) and “Prognosis of Oil and Gas Reserves” (1981) are thought to
be most significant. He is a professor at the Novosibirsk State University where he
has directed the doctorate work of eight students and the postgraduate work of 55
aspirants for the candidate degree. He is on the Scientific Council on problems of
the geology and geochemistry of oil and gas of the Russian Academy, of the
Lithology Committee, and is coordinator of the studies on Oil and Gas in the
Vostok Region of the Scientific Council for the “Sibir” program of the Siberian
Department. He is head of the Novosibirsk Oblast Scientific Technical Oil and Gas
Development Department imeni Academician I. M. Gubkina. In 1974, he received
the I. M. Gubkin Prize named after the renowned petroleum geologist and engineer,
sharing it with A. A. Trofimuk and V. S. Vishemirskii.
Academician Viktor Al. Koroteev, tel. 51-19-97(Ek.)
Koroteev, Viktor A., C. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geochemistry, Geophysics and Mining Sciences Department and of the Urals
Department since December 1987; academician since 1993. Since 1975, he has
been Director of the V. I. Lenin Ilmenskii State Reserve in Miass in Cheliabinsk
Oblast. This organization was established in 1920 to conduct geological and
biological research in the forests of the Southern Urals Mountains. Deputy
chairman of the Urals Department since August 1988.
Academician Michail V. Kurlenia, tel. 29-15-36(N.)
Kurlenia, Mikhail V. D. Tech. S. Born in 1931. Engineer. Specialist in mining
mechanics. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry,
and Mining Department and of the Siberian Department since December 1987, and
academician since 1990. He has written 24 scientific works and co-authored 105
others. He has 95 inventions and of his scientific writings, seven are major mono-
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